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The Art of the Post-Raid Debrief

May 12, 2025 by Matticus

The other day, I was chatting with one of the other raid leaders from a different team in our community. We got onto the topic of raid feedback after the raid ends. Their team uses a system where they post individual debrief threads in Discord sorted by date. People dig into logs, break down their …

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Categories All Stories, Conflict Resolution, Leadership, Raiding

Signs of an At-Risk Trial Raider and How to Address Them

July 18, 2024 by Matticus

I know firsthand how exciting and challenging (and annoying) recruiting raiders for your team can be. Every new player that comes in brings potential, but not every trial is going to be able to integrate into the team. Sure they’ve passed the initial sniff test they’ve answered the right questions, but now those players have …

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Categories All Stories, Leadership, Raiding, Recruiting

Anxiety in Tanking and Healing Mythic Dungeons

May 1, 2024 by Matticus

Happy Wednesday and I hope you all had productive vaults this week! My Priest has gone dark and heavy on Shadow and DPS gear for the first week (up to 503 ilvl now). I was able to 2 chest a +10 with some guildies and stocked up some 8s. As a raid team, we completely …

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Categories All Stories, Leadership, Raiding, Recruiting

How to Run Raid Orientation

November 14, 2023 by Matticus

Welcome to the new tier, everybody! We’re starting to kick off our raid this week. This is a great time to run raid orientation for the raid group, especially if you have many new players or if the raid team was on a break leading up to this point. For us it was mandatory because …

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Categories All Stories, Guild Topics, Leadership Tags guild, leadership, raid, raid orientation

Traits of an Effective Healing Officer

June 15, 2023 by Matticus

I swear I wrote about this topic somewhere over a decade ago on a different publication but I felt it was time to revisit it. I can’t find it as it might well be lost to the bowels of the internet. There is more to being a healing lead than simply setting cooldowns on a …

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Categories All Stories, Guild Topics, Leadership, Raiding Tags Healing Officer, MRT, Raid Leadership, Viserio
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Hi, I’m Matt. I’ve been blogging about WoW since 2007. I focus on my experience as a raiding Holy Priest and an officer for Death Jesters on US Stormrage.